Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
instantaneous.


A CHARTER was recently filed in the Office
of the Secretary of State for the Kansas,
Missouri, Arkansas d Matches Railroad
Company, capital stock SIC, 100000. Route
from Chcrryvale through Labette and
Cherokee Counties to Baxter Springs,
through the southwestern part of Missouri
into Arkansas, thence south by southeast
through the States of Arkansas and Louisi-
ana to Natchez, Miss. Estimated length
500 miles.
THE post-offlces at Ammondale Dighton,
Ellinwood, Meade Center Ness City, Scot
land. Smith Center and Syracuse will be
Presidential offices after October l.
AT recent meeting of Kansas passenger
agents at Kansas City the matter Of special
rates to the G. a. r. National Encampment
at st. Louis was considered. The Chicago,
Kansas q Nebraska road announced that it
would make d one cent-per-mile rate from
all towns on its line to Missouri river
points. After long discussion the asso-
citation decided that the same rate should
be made by the other roads from junction
points to Missouri river points, while from
the latter a one-fare round trip rate should
prevail.
AN Ellsworth dispatch reports that a
vein of salt was recently struch in that city
in the well of the Ellsworth Mining Com
pany at depth OF $50 feet which had
reached a thickness of 155 feet and the bot
IOIn naQ not DcCn fC2cnod- IL Is pure rock
salt, very strong and pronounced by ex-
perts superior to any other discovered. 1t
is claimed to be the thickest vein in the
world
The three-year-old child of Councilman
Frank Newland, of Topeka, while recently
playing about open well accidentally
fell in. The well was thirty-five feet deep
and half full of water. Mrs. Newland, the
mother, by her frantic cries for help caused
q crPpnral fire alarm n no GOnndad Tho
department promptly responded, and by
the aid of a hook the child was ished from
the well. Life was not wholly extinct, but
death ensued in short time
NEAR Arkansas City the other day Mark
Lyter and his wife left the house and the
baby lying on the bed and fve-year-old
sister to take care of it, when the little one
secured a match, and in playing with it set
the bed on fire. By the time the fire was
iscovered the arms and legs of the baby
were burned off. The little girl escaped.
THE State Superintendent of Insurance
has issued an order revOking the authority
of the Temperance Mutual Benefit Insu-
rance Company OF Topeka to do business
in the State. An investigation of the con-
Germ roved it 10 be shaky.
PATENTS lately issued 20 Kansas invent
ors: J. N. Bryant, Webster, dropping at
tachment for corn planters; William >.
Green, Ellsworth. expansion well drill;
Charles Pcister, Abilene, feed mechanism
for lolier mills; r. E. Lundin. Cedarvale,
neck yoke and pole tip; L. NJ. Pratt, Belle
vile, ornamental frame; \. ID. Blanchard,
Wichita. gun.
TIE State School Fund Commissioners re-
Gently announced that the funds under
heir control namely, the State permanent
fEnd. the University permanent fund, and
he Normal School permanent fund, are
low, with the bonds and bond-e.ectlon pa
oers on file, fully invested, and they Will
lot be able TO make further purchases prior
o January l, 1855, when they expect large
additional payments into these funds from
principal on land sales, and from bonds ma
turing at that date. After January l, 1883,
hey hope to be able to take all good school
bonds offered
DR. c. W. HAMILTON, physician OF To-
peka was arrested the other day upon
warrant sworn out by Martha Griffith, or
St Louis, who charged him with felonious-
V taking SI.750 belonging TO her. The
warrant was accompanied by requlsltlon
from the Governor OF Missouri, and HaInil-
ton was taken to st. Lo1is.
PUT up plenty of hay.
THE Governor has issued proclamations
offering reward of $3.50 for the arrest and
conviction of the person or persons who
murdered William Tarbush. near Con-
cordla, in July last; and 500 reward Tor
the arrest and delivery to the sheriff OF
Ford County, OF Ed fTatner, cnarSSo Win
having shot and seriously wounded City
Marshal Mccoy, of Dodge City, August T.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 18th: Sylvester Nordyke. OF Willard;
Vondemark Smith, of blackberry; Boen-
hard Luckner, of Godhart; jacob Drake. or
Burlingame; Archibald F. Wade, OF Win
field: John Robson, OF the Soldiers Home,
and Benjamin ID. Hobaugh, of Girard-
LEAvENwoRTH Is TO have dummy Line
running from the soldiers nome TO tha fort
and thence to the CITY,